The legal team that defended Sen. Ted Stevens in his corruption trial has harshly criticized as too light the punishment handed out to a pair of prosecutors found to have engaged in reckless professional misconduct in the case.

The Senate Ethics committee has admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn over his involvement with a staffer to former Sen. John Ensign.

The battle between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will be the most expensive contest ever, by a long shot.

First Lady Michelle Obama says musicians "just have the most fun."

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is planning a summer bus tour that will also roll through South Carolina, the early presidential primary battleground.

The General Services Administration executive who was responsible for an $823,000 conference in Las Vegas is no longer with the agency.

The Senate has rejected Democratic and Republican plans for averting a doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students.

A Senate panel has approved a $631 billion defense budget for next year, the same amount that President Barack Obama proposed for the military.

President Barack Obama has nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants.

The Senate has passed a bill that would increase inspections of foreign drug manufacturers, among other measures designed to assure the safety of the nation's increasingly imported drug supply.